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How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Types of waste and how much you can use in building projects, landscaping and drainage works, or to maintain existing linear networks under a U1 exemption.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
How to apply for environmental permit for an activity in England that could cause pollution, increase flood risk or affect land drainage.
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